There was introduced fc->bg_lock to reduce the contention, and this patchset continues this efforts. This patchset introduces per fuse_inode lock to protect inode metadata, synchronization with background writes, etc. All of the above is related to a single inode, and there is no a reason, that inodes are concurrents of each other to make some of actions exclusive. So, here we introduce fuse_inode::lock spinlock and get rid of fc->lock in many places. --- Kirill Tkhai (6): fuse: Change argument of fuse_flush_writepages() fuse: Add fuse_inode argument to fuse_prepare_release() fuse: Introduce fuse_inode::lock to protect write related fields and statistics fuse: Implement fuse_attr_version_inc() fuse: Protect fuse_inode::nlookup with fuse_inode::lock fuse: Protect fuse_file::reserved_req via corresponding fuse_inode::lock fs/fuse/cuse.c | 3 + fs/fuse/dev.c | 10 +++- fs/fuse/dir.c | 41 +++++++++--------- fs/fuse/file.c | 119 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------- fs/fuse/fuse_i.h | 27 ++++++++++-- fs/fuse/inode.c | 16 ++++--- fs/fuse/readdir.c | 4 +- 7 files changed, 126 insertions(+), 94 deletions(-) -- Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>